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...Manhattan, Gambler Frank Costello, who was convicted of contempt of the Senate's Crime Investigating Committee (and promptly appealed), was sentenced by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan to 18 months and $5,000. Said Costello, in polite if gravel-voiced tones: "Thank...
...film companies last January, moviemakers have hesitated to fire suspected Communists. But keeping suspects on the payroll means boycotts and box-office trouble: e.g., Industry Spokesman Eric Johnston this week is trying to placate the American Legion, which is objecting to pictures ranging from Detective Story to Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, because Communist suspects worked on them. But RKO Boss Hughes didn't seem to mind trouble...
Last week Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver was the first of the seven to take over on Presidential Timber. He brought his sprightly wife and 81-year-old father with him, as well as an album of family photos, some news films of Frank Costello on the witness stand, and a folksy informality of manner that gave the show more the air of a social visit than an appeal from a political platform. None of Kefauver's rivals is likely to top him in homespun amiability. What he lacks in TV forcefulness is compensated for by a persuasive...
...says that if he doesn't want to write, would he please give her address to one of his friends. The address: P. Costello 51, Torino, Italy...
Tired but Happy. The readings have given a healthy push to Laughton's career. He is signed for at least four new movies (including one with Abbott & Costello), and this week begins a new radio series for the American Medical Association. He has enough reading projects to keep him busy for a decade. He intends to find time for another assault on Shakespeare : his great ambition is to do a really bang-up performance of King Lear, but he doesn't yet feel ready for the part. Tentatively scheduled for this fall is another reading tour based...